Sweden struggles to handle the fallout from repeated Quran-burning protests (www.euronews.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1213100...
Preorders for Samsung's new foldables hit record high in S. Korea (en.yna.co.kr)
Uruguay’s missing women may have been trafficked. Why doesn’t the state care? (www.opendemocracy.net)
For six years, Nancy Baladán has ridden her motorcycle along Uruguay’s country paths and urban highways in search of answers about the night that altered her life forever....
everyone wake up, new patch just dropped (sh.itjust.works)
What’s going on with the reports of a room-temperature superconductor? (arstechnica.com)
“AI” Hurts Consumers and Workers -- and Isn’t Intelligent (techpolicy.press)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/2811405...
Coyote red flags (lemmy.ml)
Sync or something idk I use the web interface (lemm.ee)
Fran Drescher Visits New York Picket Lines, Tells Producers: “Yield to Our Deal” (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
Speaking in front of the Netflix offices near Union Square, the SAG-AFTRA president urged actors to keep up their morale: "We are not going to back down."
Quake 2 Remaster will be announced and released next week during QuakeCon 2023 (gamerkick.com)
A few days ago we informed you that Quake 2 Remastered appeared in the South Korean age rating system, which could advance an announcement at QuakeCon 2023,
EU banks face liquidity checks next year after 2023 crises (www.reuters.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/999121...
Poland rushes troops to border, Belarus denies helicopter violation (www.reuters.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/950244...
Remnant 2 feels like playing seven games at once, and all of them are great (www.topgear.com)
Thousands Remain Displaced After Türkiye's Earthquakes (www.telesurenglish.net)
Nearly six months after deadly earthquakes devastated southern Türkiye, thousands of survivors are still displaced, while President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has promised a rapid reconstruction....
Griftonomics: Why Scams are Everywhere Now - Tom Nicholas [1:45:54] (par1.iv.ggtyler.dev)
I‘m using Invidious, a privacy-friendly, open source alternative front-end to YouTube. If you‘d rather watch it on YouTube directly, this is the URL: youtube.com/watch?v=2bq3SdfzcA4
Judi Dench says she can no longer see on film sets (www.theguardian.com)
The actor, 88, who has macular degeneration, relies on friends to teach her the script but says, ‘You just deal with it’
Russia’s Withdrawal from UN Grain Deal Once Again Expands Reach of War in Ukraine (www.leftvoice.org)
Lebanon's veteran central bank chief leaves post with legacy in shreds (www.reuters.com)
BEIRUT, July 30 (Reuters) - Once feted as a financial wizard, Lebanese central bank governor Riad Salameh leaves the post he has held for 30 years on Monday, his legacy stained by the devastating collapse of Lebanon’s banking sector and corruption charges at home and abroad....
Study shows how images and sounds can be used for indirect prompt and instruction injection in multi-modal LLMs (arxiv.org)
An attacker generates an adversarial perturbation corresponding to the prompt and blends it into an image or audio recording. When the user asks the (unmodified, benign) model about the perturbed image or audio, the perturbation steers the model to output the attacker-chosen text and/or make the subsequent dialog follow the...
Ticketmaster said to face possible new legal threat in US (www.politico.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/833521...
China issues red alert for torrential rain in Beijing (koreatimes.co.kr)
China’s weather service issued a red alert for torrential rain in the capital Beijing and surrounding provinces, Saturday, as Typhoon Doksuri swept inland bringing hazardous weather conditions to many parts of the country....
‘Something weird is going on’: search for answers as Antarctic sea ice stays at historic lows (www.theguardian.com)
India, Manipur genocide : ‘The next Kashmir’; On Manipur ground zero, ‘rising’ bullet prices, armed youth at police bunkers (www.newslaundry.com)
Self-proclaimed ‘village volunteers’ are armed with weapons sourced from the black market and looted from police armouries.
Vietnam jails 50 in mass bribery trial over Covid-19 flights (www.bbc.com)
A court in Vietnam has jailed 54 people, including several high-ranking officials and a former minister, in one of the country’s largest ever bribery and corruption cases....
mastodon.art defederating calckey firefish social. Cites behavior of lead project dev (dotart.blog)
mastodon.art has decided to suspend firefish.social from their instance due to issues with its administrator. The administrator of firefish.social was found to be boosting posts from a known harasser on another instance. mastodon.art takes a firm stance against racism and suspending full instances in these situations is part of...
